{"id":45439,"date":"2016-10-12T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45439"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:08:43","slug":"nau-joins-lowell-observatory-honor-legacy-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-joins-lowell-observatory-honor-legacy-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU joins Lowell Observatory to honor the legacy of its founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northern Arizona University and Lowell Observatory will host a celebration of the life and contributions of Percival Lowell beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 at Lowell Observatory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Percival Lowell made transformative contributions in the fields of astronomy and Orientology, and this year\u00a0marks the 100th\u00a0anniversary of his\u00a0death. The event, titled “A Century Later: Percival Lowell\u2019s Cultural and Scientific Legacy,” will feature presentations that pay tribute to his career and legacy.<\/p>\n

NAU’s Michael Amundson<\/strong>, history professor, and Tim Yamamura<\/strong>, English lecturer, will participate in\u00a0the lecture series. Amundson will present “Seeing Arizona, Imagining Mars: Percival Lowell, The Red Planet, and the American West<\/a>,” suggesting that Lowell’s writings about Mars could have been talking about his adopted home, the American West. Yamamura will present “Far Out Worlds: America\u2019s Asia, Science Fiction, and the Dream of Percival Lowell<\/a>,” exploring\u00a0the writings and legacy of Lowell on the history of science\u00a0fiction and the representation of Asia within American letters.<\/p>\n

For more information about the event, visit the Lowell Observatory website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Arizona University and Lowell Observatory will host a celebration of the life and contributions of Percival Lowell beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell made transformative contributions in the fields of astronomy and Orientology, and this year\u00a0marks the 100th\u00a0anniversary of his\u00a0death. The event, titled “A Century Later: Percival Lowell\u2019s…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":45447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}